Friday, July 30, 2010

Tyler Holmes and Emil Igwenagu have been named UMass captains for the 2010 season. There have been a number of Junior captains for UMass in the past, but this is the first time I can remember where there were two. This is probably because UMass returns only nine starters (second lowest in the CAA) and only six, by my count, are seniors.

Today is thirty-six days until the 2010 season starts. Wearing #36 for UMass is Tyler Holmes, a 6-0 215 pd RS JR LB from Blacksburg, VA. In 2009 Homes was the leading tackler on defense as he went 50 UT 60 AT 110 TT 6.5-14 TFL 1.0-9 SACKS 4-12 INT 5 BkUp 1 FF. Besides tackles, Holmes lead the team in INT's. Holmes was the second leading tackler in the CAA with 11 Avg/G. He has been named one of the UMass Captains for 2010.

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

UMass has a revised 2010 roster up. It includes some additions to the roster and the 2010 recruits have been assigned numbers.

The revisions are probably not complete. Coach Morris mentioned JUCO QB Ian Shultis at the Friends of Football meeting Monday night. He also stated UMass will have FBS/I-A transfers from Temple and Syracuse and those do not yet appear on the roster. He also mentioned UMass might add further players later in the summer.

The one every one will be interested in is #3 Ian Shultis, 6-2 200 pd SO QB from Moorpark JUCO in CA.

Today is thirty-nine days until football opens. Wearing #39 for UMass this year is James Carven, a 6-0 210 pd RS SR from Hanover, MA. Carven played in nine games in 2009 and had 7 UT 1 AT 8 TT 1-8 INT 1 FF.

Another source of UMie pride is the Astronomy Dept's 2MASS all-sky survey. I use the Two Micron sky images a lot in my astronomy work. The 2MASS survey is cited in a huge number of astronomical research papers.

I have another story about the 2MASS Sky Survey that has a UMass football connection. Somebody remind me of it when we're having a slow football news day.

Today is forty-two days until football. Wearing 342 for UMass this year will be Devin Lindsey, a 6-0 225 pd RS FR LB from University City, MO. Lindsey was redshirted in 2009.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Today is forty-four days until football. Wearing #44 for UMass this year is Perry McIntyre, a 6-0 215 pd SO LB from Royal Palm Beach, FL. McIntyre played in all 11 games in 2009 and started seven times. He was the third leading tackler going 22 UT 42 AT 64 TT 2.5-9 TFL 1 INT 3 BrUp.

Today is forty-five days until football starts. Wearing #45 for UMass this year will be Chris Chamberlin a 6-2 240 pd RS SO LB from South Easton, MA. Chamberlin played in 10 games last year and had 5 TT in 2009.

The Sports Network has released their Buchanan Award Watch List for the best defensive player in FCS. IMHO, the list is a little strange. Six of the 20 nominees come from two schools: Appalachian State and Richmond. According to my literature, the Spiders only return four starters on defense. Three of the four are amoung the top 20 defensive players in the division?

Today is forty-six days until the season opens. Wearing #46 for UMass will be Chad Hunte, a 6-0 205 pd SO LB from Brookline, MA. Hunte transferred from Northeastern. He played as a true freshman for the Pride and racked up 18 UT 15 AT 33 TT 1 INT.

This article on UMass' OOC opponent Stony Brook hasn't hit the Sports Network site yet. Stony Brook is a growing program that may fit in the CAA some day or be part of a new Yankee Conference with UMass, UNH, UMaine, UAlbany.

There is a new Youngstown State Blog available. It's at http://letsgoguins.com/. I'm not doing a link because it has a flash script that my OS keeps complaining about. It you visit, you should probably turn off Flash.

If you're running FireFox, Sea Monkey or other Mozzilla web browsers, you might consider No Script, which blocks java script, flashlight and other scripts. It will make your web browser a lot more secure.

This writer ranks the Big Ten's OOC and has UMass as the 5th "worse" game. The writer does not seem to know much about FCS teams. I think Southern Illinois has a chance against Big Ten bottom feeder Illinois (3-9 last year).

Today is fifty days until football starts! Wearing #50 for UMass this year will be Josh Samuda, a 6-4 310 pd RS JR OL from Hollywood, FL. Josh has started in 22 of 23 games he's played in. Should start again at LG in 2010.

Today is fifty-one days until the start of the UMass season. Wearing #51 for UMass is Quinton Sales, a 6-3 280 pd OL from Fort Washington, MD. Sales is a RS SO. He played in two games in 2009 after missing the entire 2008 season with a broken foot.

Only fifty-two days until the 2010 season opens. Wearing #52 for UMass this year will be Bill Nesselt a 6-2 245 pd RS FR DL from Ft. Lauderdale, FL. Nesselt was redshited in 2009. He was playing with the first team defense during the spring game.

The CAA blogger has a long article (including video) on the CAA nominees .--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Fifty-three days until football and wearing #53 for UMass this year will be D.J. Adeoba a 6-0 215 RS SO LB from Hollywood, FL. D.J. played in 8 games starting 1. He went 7 UT 6AT 13 TT 1 TFL. He was the CAA's Rookie-of-the-week against Kansas State.

He was to be inducted into the College Football Hall-of-Fame next week.

UPDATE: Nothing from UMass or the Hampshire Gazette as yet. This article mentions Milt as one of "A good Hall-of-Fame Class".UPDATE II Sunday: Two more articles (but not much new information) from the Boston Herald and CBS3 Springfield.

CBS3 has a copy of an image I found yesterday. The image below is available as a authorized print from the Cleveland Plain Dealer.

A Richmond-Times writer says UMass has struggled to win consistently in the CAA. He must have slept through the Whipple and Brown eras. UMass has winning series records with James Madison, Richmond,William & Mary and Towson...

Craig Haley has another of his "In the FCS Huddle" articles featuring Bucknell's new HC Joe Susan. He also has some FCS tidbits at the end of the story. Delaware's frequently-injured Matt Marconelle has been granted a rare sixth year of eligibility.

Monday, July 05, 2010

Some good news for UMass Football fans. The Providence Journal has quotes from the AD's at UMass, UNH and Maine about the CAA.

From UMass' John McCutcheon“We’re committed to competing at the highest end of FCS football. The CAA is probably the most competitive conference in the FCS, and we’re committed to the CAA. We understand there may be some challenges travel-wise. We’ll just have to increase our fundraising,”

Thursday, July 01, 2010

The article includes a item about the NEC releasing a news story concerning being in talks with Rhode Island about joining the league.-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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